Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Omar Bradley got his good weather on July 25 and touched off his rocket. It swooshed through the chute, burst out of Normandy, burned a path to Avranches and the north corner of the Breton peninsula...
...even the most optimistic of the war correspondents had not anticipated the rocket's carrying power, the astonishing speed it had developed by this week. It had burst again & again, had shot out spectacular and stunning bolts in all directions. The rocket's red glare lit up these accomplishments in a historic victory of U.S. arms...
...ARMY & NAVY). His assault force was three Chinese divisions and a few U.S. combat engineers. In preparation for the attack, Chinese dug trenches through Japanese machine-gun fields, and Americans flew in a five-ton 155-mm. howitzer-the biggest gun ever used in the battle. When the assault burst...
...Letters reflect the brimming Woollcott emotions. "I just cried quietly," he wrote to Noel Coward after seeing the Lamb of God's movie, In Which We Serve. "Courage is the only thing that makes me cry." After previewing Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he burst into "a great, astonishing sob" and fell down the projection-room stairs. "One of the characters in Of Mice and Men," he wrote to Harpo Marx, "is an amiable and gigantic idiot. . . . I tried to get [Heywood] Broun to take this part and he was very hurt." "Just a big dreamer," said Harpo of Woollcott, "with...
...following morn ing, the din of the fighting came closer, German stray shells dropped into the val ley, and we picked another natural field for June 2. No luck, again. Just as the tightlipped, bomb-scarred squadron leader was measuring off the new landing ground, machine guns burst out on a nearby hill and the order came, "Pokret." The Germans, guided by the Chetniks, were breaking into the highland. At dusk 60 Partisan gunners held off the nearest group of 400 Germans at a ridge while our single file slithered west into the woods...